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CONTENTS. 

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ir- List of Illustrations 8 

-J Committees ^ 

Preface ^^ 

An Historical Sketch of Baltimore Grace S. Arnold 13 

The Industries of Baltimore Henry Bogue, Jr. 15 

The Baltimore Harbor Nina Irvin 18 

The New Sewerage System Calvin W. Hendrick 20 

Some Architectural Notes Laurence H. Fowler 23 

The Maryland Institute J. Frederick Hopkins 28 

Walters Art Gallery Winifred R. Hazeltine 32 

The Peabody Institute Alice A. White 34 

Mural Decorations in the Court House E. A. Doetsch 36 

Universities and Schools Lilian W. Duval 40 

Monuments and Sculpture Elizabeth A. Key worth 44 

Art Societies Lilian W. Duval 49 

Charcoal Club Art School Henry H. Wiegand 50 

Notes on Maryland Authors Katharine G. Grasty 51 

The Parks Minnie E. Ashcom 55 

The Playground Movement in Baltimore. ..E. R. Morgan 58 

The Boy Scouts H. Laurance Eddy 61 

Some Picturesque Bits of Baltimore and Vicinity, 

Francis P. Wightman 62 

The Eye Sentient James Parton Haney 68 

ADDENDA. 
Railroad and Steamship Lines (See "Transportation") 
Program, Pages 22-23 R. Milton Hall 

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Cover Design Olive C. Slater 

Cecilius Calvert, Lord Baltimore Frontispiece 

Launching of the Missouri, Sparrows Point 16 

"The Square Rigger" 19 

An Automobile Trip Thru Baltimore's Sanitary Sewers.. 21 

Washington Place 25 

Mount Vernon Place 27 

The Maryland Institute 29 

"Early Evening" By J. C. Cazin 30 

"Arab Horseman" By Ad. Schreyer 31 

"A Primitive Chant" By Herman A. MacNeil 35 

"Lord Baltimore's Edict of Religious Toleration," 

•By Blashfield 37 

The Eastern High School 41 

A Sketch Class with Miss Key w-orth 43 

The Tomb of Rinehart, Greenmount Cemetery 44 

"The Separation of Orpheus and Eurydice," 

By J. Maxwell Miller 45 

"The Violet" By Hans Schuler 47 

Bust of Sidney Lanier By Ephraim Keyser 51 

Druid Hill Park in Winter 57 

"The Child Heart" By Elsa Kaji 59 

City Spring Square Playground .•••••• 60 

"Gwynns Falls" ^ . *?* 63 

"The Willows" 64 

"The Cove" 64 

"The Cascade" — Orange Grove 65 

"A Bit of Jones' Falls" By Peirson 66 

"Angelo Castle" By Morris Greenberg 67 

"In Little Pleasant Street" By Peirson 69 

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CO-OPERATING COMMITTEES OF GREET- 
ING, INFORMATION, POINTS OF 
INTEREST, AND GUIDE 
BOOK. 



Oi.ivE Cauroll Slater. Chairvnin. 
Departmrnt of Art. Eastern High School. 

Grack S. Arnold. 

Instructor of Manual Training and Drawing, 
Ungraded Class, School 48. 

Minnie E. Ashcom, 

Instructor in Art, Page Primary School. 

Henry Bocu'e. Jr.. 

Director of Annex, Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. 

Alice Jouveaxj DuBreuil. 

Department of Modern Languages, Eastern High 
School. 

Lilian \V. Dvval. 

Instructor in Elementary School 30. 

H. Laitrance Eddy, 

Commissioner of the Boy Scouts. 

Laltrence Hall Fowler. 

Architect, 347 N. Charles St. 

Katharine G. Grasty, 

Librarian of the Eastern High School. 

R. Milton Hall, 

Instructor in Manual Training, School 79. 

Winifred R. Hazeltine, 

Instructor in Elementary School 99. 

Nina Irvin. 

Secretary Maryland Institute Alumni Association. 

Elizabeth A. Keyworth, 

Assistant Supervisor of Drawing. 

Emma R. Morgan, 

Director Carroll Park Playground. 

C. Irvinc Ward. 

Portrait Painter and Mural Decorator. 

Rose O. Wickes, 

Department of Commerce, Eastern High School. 

Alice A. White, 

Administration Building. 

Francis P. Wightman, 

Portrait Painter and Illustrator. 

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PREFACE. 

While the general purpose of this little handbook, it Is 
hoped, will be quite plain to its readers, a prefatory word 
may aid in explaining the aim of its authors. They could 
not hope within its limited pages to describe all the in- 
teresting aspects of their city, but have endeavored to set 
forth some of the "broader community interests which make 
up its life. 

In the preparation of these pages many have assisted, 
as it was the desire that thru the co-operation of rep- 
resentatives of different professions there might be devel- 
oped a community view-point helpful to the stranger, and 
helpful, also, to the writers, who have been brought in their 
common effort to study phases of work quite different from 
their own. 

One of the sanest ideas regarding art teaching — and 
one quite recent in our school work — is that the instruction 
shall not endeavor to make artists — technicians — of the 
pupils, but shall aim directly at a quickening of their 
artistic reactions and a sharpening of their critical knowl- 
edge in regard to the world around them — the clothes they 
wear, the houses they live in, and the city which shall be 
theirs to mar or to beautify. 

To this desirable end is directed the training of the 
modern art teacher who must be the thoughtful student of 
many processes and the sensitive recipient of much in- 
struction, both artistic and commercial. Above all, he must 
be, in the best sense of the word, an idealist — altho he may 
realize that his ideal is forever beyond his grasp. If he be 
so trained and so inspired, then the finest element in his 
work will be the unrealized ideal for which he strives. 
To suggest some of the many things that will give this 
training is one of the purposes of this book. In presenting 
it, the authors venture the hope that it will afford to its 
recipients something of the pleasure, interest, and affection 
which have entered into its making. To all who have gen- 
erously given of their time and knowledge in its prepara- 
tion, cordial thanks are due and are here gratefully ex- 
tended. 0. C. S. 

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AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF BALTIMORE. 

By GuACK S. Arnold. 

The City of Baltimore, which now ranks among the 
great cities of America in point of population, and second 
only to New York in point of financial strength and busi- 
ness importance, had a very humble beginning in 1706, at 
the spot upon which Fort McHenry now stands. This 
town does not seem to have flourished, and in 1720 another 
site was chosen — the location of the present Charles Street, 
between Pratt and Lombard Streets. Upon this embryotic 
city was conferred the name "Baltimore," the title of the 
founder of the colony of Maryland. 

In 1797 Baltimore was incorporated with a Mayor and 
a City Council. At this time Baltimore had a population 
of about 15,000. Its favorable location at the head of one of 
the grandest bodies of water in the world, its superb har- 
bor, its equable climate, bountiful water supply, and ex- 
quisite rolling country, quickly attracted enterprising na- 
tives of foreign countries, and in ten years the City had 
more than doubled its population. From this time on the 
progress of Baltimore has been one of uninterrupted and 
almost unparalleled prosperity. 

Among its notable features from an historical point of 
view are the following points of interest: 

CONGRESS HALL. When the British threatened 
Philadelphia in the winter of 1776, Congress fled to Balti- 
more and occupied the Jacob Fite House, a spacious three- 
story dwelling. The Sons of the American Revolution 
erected a bronze tablet, February 22, 1894, on a building 
near the Southeast corner of Baltimore and Liberty Streets, 
as a memorial. The inscription runs as follows: "On this 
site stood old 'Congress Hall,' in which the Continental 
Congress met, December 20, 1776, conferring upon General 
Washington powers for the conduct of the Revolutionary 
War." 

FEDERAL HILL PARK. The batteries erected here 
during the War of 1812 did excellent work in the attack of 
the British following the Battle of North Point. 

FORT McHENRY. During the War of 1812, Fort 
McHenry was the chief means of defense against the at- 
tacks of the British, who desired to subjugate Baltimore, 
in order to reach Washington, the Capital. The destructive 
fire from Fort McHenry compelled the British to retreat. 
During the bombardment Francis Scott Key, who was im- 
prisoned on an English vessel, wrote "The Star-Spangled 
Banner." 

FLAG HOUSE. In the second floor front room of a 
house at the Northeast corner of Pratt and Albemarle 
Streets, Mrs. Mary Pickersgill is said to have sewed to- 
gether the United States flag that waved over Fort Mc- 
Henry in 1814, and which inspired Francis Scott Key to 
write the "Star-Spangled Banner." 

HOUSE IN WHICH CHARLES CARROLL OF CAR- 
ROLLTON DIED. Charles Carroll, the only Roman Cath- 
olic signer of the Declaration of Independence, died in 1832, 

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in a house which is still in existence. The house is on the 
North side of Lombard Street, near Front Street. 

HOLLIDAY STREET THEATER. Holliday Street Thea- 
ter was the old Drury Theater of Baltimore. It was opened 
in 1794. The original building was destroyed by fire and 
was rebuilt in 1875. In this theater Edmund Kean and 
the Booths appeared, and here the "Star-Spangled Banner" 
was first sung. 

FRONT STREET THEATER. Front Street Theater 
was once a favorite place for holding great conventions. 
In 1864 Abraham Lincoln was here nominated for Presi- 
dent by the Union National Convention. 

MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY. This Society 
was incorporated in 1844. The building, at Charles and 
Saratoga Streets, contains many treasures, among them an 
interesting collection of maps, coins, medals, manuscripts, 
and charts. Besides the invaluable collection of historical 
data in the library, the building contains an excellent art 
gallery, in which are many famous paintings. Both the 
library and the art gallery are open to visitors free, be- 
tween 10 A. M. and 4 P. M. 

PEALE'S MUSEUM. Peale's Museum, at the North- 
east corner of Holliday and Lexington Streets, was built by 
Rembrandt Peale in 1814. 

LIBERTY ENGINE HOUSE. The triangular plat at 
the intersection of Liberty Street, Fayette Street and Park 
Avenue, is the site of the old Liberty Engine House. Here, 
in November, 1860, was raised the "palmetto flag," the 
first display of secession sentiment in Baltimore. 

MERCHANTS' SHOT TOWER. The Merchants' Shot 
Tower, at the corner of Front and Fayette Streets, was built 
in 1828. It rises 234 feet from the ground and was erected 
without scaffolding, the walls having been built from 
within. In the formation of shot, the molten lead was 
poured from the top of the tower thru sieves of different 
degrees of coarseness, and the shot was shaped by whirling 
thru the air. 

ST. MARY'S SEMINARY OF ST. SULSPICE. Situ- 
ated on Paca Street, north of Franklin, is the oldest Roman 
Catholic seminary in the United States. The original 
structure was erected in 1791. 

SITE OF THE CATHEDRAL. As Rochambeau was re- 
turning from the siege of Yorktown, 1781, he halted in 
Baltimore, and with the Duke of Lauzaun encamped with 
his army upon the site of the present Cathedral. 

THE McKIM FREE SCHOOL. The McKim Free 
School at Baltimore and Aisquith Streets was the first free 
school in Baltimore. It was established for the poor chil- 
dren of the neighborhood, irrespective of religion. 

GREENMOUNT CEMETERY. In this cemetery are 
niany graves of historic interest, among them those of John 
McDonough, William Henry Rinehart, and of the famous 
Booth family. The Patterson and Bonaparte burial grounds 
are also here. 

THE GREAT FIRE. Not far away from the site of the 
Liberty Engine House is the John E. Hurst building in 
which the Great Fire, February 7, 1904, started, from an un- 
known cause. The fire destroyed 1443 buildings, taking in 
its course almost all that was of historic interest. 

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THE INDUSTRIES OF BALTIMORE. 

By Henry Bogue, Jr. 

The industries of Baltimore are varied and of great im- 
portance to American and foreign markets, the exports of 
Baltimore manufacturers being of such dimensions that the 
city is well known in the United States and distant coun- 
tries as the manufacturing home of many commodities of 
every day use, such as: canned goods, clothing of all kinds, 
pianos, silverware, and some widely advertised proprietary 
medicines. Wherever straw hats are worn Baltimore is 
known as a large, if not the largest, producer. This 
reputation applies also to underwear. The smoker or 
chewer of tobacco who does not know Baltimore brands 
has not used the best. The American Tobacco Company 
has absorbed no less than five large factories here, all of 
which are in active operation today. The American Copper 
Smelting and Rolling Company of Baltimore is the largest 
copper refining plant in America. The Maryland Steel Com- 
pany employs a whole town of workmen and lately built 
the largest dry-dock in the world. The freight cars and car 
wheels of the South Baltimore Car Works travel from Bal- 
timore to San Francisco. At Baltimore, the Baltimore and 
Ohio Railroad Company owns and operates immense shops 
for the maintenance of rolling stock of every description 
from locomotives to palace passenger coaches. The glass 
works of the city supply a large export trade in bottles and 
jars; and the Crown Cork and Seal Company, the pioneer 
manufacturer of bottle and jar sealing devices, furnishes a 
large percentage of the best machines used for this purpose. 
The name of the Knabe Company on a piano guarantees 
the best that money can buy, and for generations has car- 
ried the name of Baltimore wherever piano music is heard. 
The artistic craft of the city is well represented by the 
silverware of the Samuel Kirk Company, which is unique 
in point of workmanship and remarkable for beauty of de- 
sign. The Samuel Kirk building, devoted entirely to the 
display of handwrought silver, is one of the show places of 
Baltimore. 

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To the visitor who would see industrial Baltimore, it is 
suggested that a trip be made to the Maryland Steel Com- 
pany's plant at Sparrows Point as the most interesting in- 
dustrial center, on account of the variety of work done 
there and the model town developed by the Company as a 
residence for the workers. At this place may be seen the 
process of manufacturing merchantable steel and iron, from 
the first smelting of the crude iron ores into pigs to the 
final rolling of steel rails. Large iron and brass foundries 
produce every casting used in the building of steel ships 
and marine engines. The pattern shop, necessitated by the 
foundry, is large and of great interest to the wood worker. 
In the shipyard may be seen — in various stages of con- 
struction — passenger steamers, government colliers, dry 
docks, dredging machines, and self-propelling barges. The 
engines and propelling machinery for all work are designed 
and built in the machine shops at the Point, very little of 
anything except raw material being furnished from out- 
side sources. 

The combined steel mill and shipyard employs a large 
number of workers who form the town of Sparrows Point, 
a model community which might be copied with advantage 
by larger townships. The Company, which has spared no 




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reasonable expense in contributing to the welfare of the 
employees and to the improvement of the town, has had a 
notable success in the management of police, fire, and 
health departments and maintains a good high school 
where manual training is used to advantage in the educa- 
tion of future generations of mechanics. The residence 
section of the town is attractive in appearance and, on a 
June day when the rose fences are in bloom, suggests the 
rich man's summer lodge, rather than the home of the busy 
mill worker and mechanic. 

In addition to visiting Sparrows Point, it is suggested 
that a trip be made to the following industrial establish- 
ments which are among the most interesting in Baltimore: 

MT. CLARE SHOPS, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; Pratt 
Street and Arlington Avenue. St. Paul Street car. 
South; transfer at Lombard street. West. 

BALTIMORE COPPER SMELTING AND ROLLING COM- 
PANY. Canton. St. Paul Street car. South; trans- 
fer to Pennsylvania Avenue line. East. 

CROWN CORK AND SEAL COMPANY. Guilford Avenue. 
St. Paul Street car, North; transfer to Guilford 
Avenue line. East. 

SWINDELL BROTHERS' GLASS WORKS; Bayard and 
Russell Streets. St. Paul Street car, South; trans- 
fer to Columbia Avenue line. West. 

WILLIAM KNABE AND COMPANY, PIANOS; South 
Eutaw and Cross Streets. St. Paul Street car. 
South; transfer to Westport line. South. 

M. S. LEVY AND SONS, STRAW HATS; Lombard and 
Paca Streets. St. Paul Street car. South; transfer 
to Lombard Street line. West. 

SAMUEL KIRK AND SONS COMPANY, SILVERSMITHS; 
106 E. Baltimore Street. St. Paul Street car South, 
to Baltimore and Calvert Streets. 
The information with regard to car lines has been 
given from the starting point of Hotel Belvedere. 

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THE HARBOR. 

By Nina Irvin. 

Baltimore is essentially a seaport city. Its excellent 
situation on the Patapsco River at the head of Chesapeake 
Bay, and its natural advantages for harbor facilities are 
unsurpassed for maritime commerce. Younger by a hun- 
dred years than any of the other large cities of the Sea- 
board, Baltimore has, nevertheless, maintained an exten- 
sive trade with the world at large. 

Prior to the great fire of 1904, Baltimore owned but 
little wharf property of importance. The fire made It 
possible to acquire all the Burnt District fronting on the 
harbor, and under the Six Million Loan, the city pur- 
chased the property, removed all buildings and streets, 
and laid out a system of Public Wharves and Docks which 
is undoubtedly the most modern system of docks and piers 
in the United States. There are eighteen miles of dockage 
and waterfront within the contracted City Limits, and 
many times that area in the outlying districts. Standing 
at the head of the largest bay on the Atlantic Coast, the 
opportunities for harbor expansion are unlimited. The 
harbor has, moreover, the advantage of being well shel- 
tered, being what is called a land locked harbor. 

Baltimore harbor can accommodate the largest vessels. 
The channel leading from the City is 35 feet deep and 600 
feet wide, which makes it possible for ships of 20,000 tons 
displacement to enter and leave the harbor with ease and 
safety. The Government is engaged in deepening and 
widening the inner channels to a considerable extent. 

Baltimore has long been famous for handling export 
grain and has largely contributed to the nation's wealth 
through these facilities. The departments of weighing and 
inspection of the Chamber of Commerce are models in 
every respect, giving confidence and security at home 
and abroad. The port of Baltimore has received universal 
commendation because of this fact. Excellent railroad 
connections with the different States furnish another 
reason for the importance of the Baltimore port. 

There is much historic interest in the port of Balti- 
more. Fort McHenry, the birthplace of the Star Spangled 
Banner, is at the mouth of the harbor. Four miles down 
is Fort Carroll. Twelve miles down, at the mouth of the 
river, is North Point, where General Ross was killed in 
the War of 1814, the threatened invasion of Baltimore 
repulsed, and the march on Washington turned back. 

From the picturesque point of view, the harbor of 
Baltimore is at its best in the evening. The myriads of 
lights reflected from docks and vessels, and the wonderful 
display of flames from the rolling mills at Steelton, out- 
lined brilliantly against the darkness of the night, present 
to the artist's fancy an everchanging phantasmagoria of 
beauty and delight. 

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'THE SQUARE RIGGER" 



The Bark Onaway, in Baltimore Harbor 
Photograph bv Mr. Jewell 



THE NEW SEWERAGE SYSTEM OF 
BALTIMORE. 

BY CALVIN W. HENDRICK. 
Chief Engineer. 

Unless you take the time to visit in person some of the 
construction work being carried on in various parts of the 
City by the Sewerage Commission, you cannot realize the 
magnitude of the work nor the diversified engineering 
problems that are being solved every day. The people out- 
side of Baltimore seem to appreciate this as is seen by the 
fact that we have visitors from outside who have traveled 
thousands of miles to see the work of construction carried 
on. These foreign visitors are not the merely idle or 
curious, but are citizens of consequence, and engineers who 
are doing things thruout the world. 

Our work is most interesting on account of its compli- 
cations. To endeavor to give you a slight idea of its magni- 
tude and difficulties, we will start on the supposition that 
water must flow down hill. This means that an 8-inch 
sewer, beginning at Forest Park, 13 miles distant from the 
Disposal Plant, must continue on a constantly falling grade, 
which cannot be flattened beyond certain rates, ever in- 
creasing in size as sewers lead into it from valleys and hills 
covering an area of 32 square miles, in its path crossing 
Peck's Branch, the B. & O. tunnel, over and under Jones' 
Falls, the Pennsylvania tunnels, crossing over ravines, 
swinging around hills, tunneling thru ridges, passing thru 
narrow valleys, by the side of tall buildings, ever contin- 
uing on the constant falling grade; constantly increasing 
in size until, on reaching the Disposal Plant, it is large 
enough to contain two automobiles, one on top of the other. 
Two-thirds of the sewage of the City is intercepted and 
carried to the Disposal Plant by gravity; the other third is 
lifted by enormous pumps, each with a capacity of 27,500,- 
000 gallons a day, from a point 13 feet below tide to the 
Outfall Sewer, a height of 72 feet (including friction); 
an unusually heavy lift, especially as sewage is much more 
difficult to pump than water. Three of these enormous 
pumps are constructed and are now being installed. The 
Pumping Station is large enough for two more, to be in- 
stalled later. The foundations for these pumps have been 
so constructed, independent of the foundations for the 
building, as to absorb all shocks. 

The difficulty of our work is doubled on account of our 
having to construct two systems of sewers and drains, 
crossing and recrossing each other in a thousand different 
places. The reason for the necessity of having to construct 
two systems is that the legislature requires every gallon 
of sewage to be taken into the sanitary system, to be 
purified before it is discharged into the Chesapeake Bay or 
its tributaries. It is therefore of the utmost importance 

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that we reduce to a minimum the amount of sewage to be 
pumped and treated in order to keep down the size of the 
sewers, the Pumping Plant, the Disposal Plant, and the un- 
necessary constant treating and pumping of clean rain- 
water. To attempt to treat all the rain that falls would 
break a city. Therefore the sanitary sewers will take care 
of the drainage from bath tubs, kitchen sinks and toilets, 
while the rainwater will pass off thru the storm-water 
drains, by inlets at the corners. 

How to attempt to install these two systems of drains 
and sewers in the beds of streets of a city over a hundred 
years old, in which a mass of pipes have been laid, but in 
which practically no space for sewers and drains has been 
left, brings us face to face with a serious problem, as these 
sewers and drains must continue on ever-descending, regu- 
lar grades and cannot twist over and under obstructions 
like water pipes, gas pipes and other public structures. 

The sewers completed and under contract, about 160 
miles, if placed end to end, would almost reach from Balti- 
more to New York, a portion of which being large enough 
for one to drive thru them in automobiles. 

The method of treating the sewage is as follows: 

At the mouth of the Outfall Sewer will be installed 
screens that will catch such things as sticks, rags, etc., 
which will be removed and burned. The sew^age will then 
pass thru the meter house, which will measure its flow; 
then thru hydrolitic tanks, about 450 feet long, requiring 8 
hours for passage, a sufficient length of time to allow the 
solids to settle, the liquid passing on to an intercepting 
channel, to and thru what we call the gate-house, which 




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distributes it to the stone sprinkling filters, located at a 
level 15 feet below the hydrolitic tanks, giving a hydraulic 
head of sufficient force to spray the sewage over these stone 
beds thru nozzles or jets, spaced 15 feet apart. The hy- 
draulic head will be controlled by butterfly valves, causing 
the sprays to rise and fall, varying from close to the noz- 
zles out to the limit of 15 feet, thus utilizing the entire 
surface of the stone bed, a large portion of which would be 
wasted if the sprays were stationary. These nozzles will 
throw a square spray, thereby saving additional space 
which would be lost if the sprays were circular, as where 
circles touch there is a lost triangle. 

The spraying of the sewage thru the air is essential 
to the aeration and purification of the sewage. As the 
sewage falls on the stone beds it trickles down thru 8^4 
feet of broken stone varying in size from 1 in. to 2% in. 
The passing of the sewage thru these beds forms a gela- 
tine-like film on the stones, in which certain bacteria mul- 
tiply by the million, attacking and killing the injurious 
bacteria in the sewage. We therefore make the bacteria do 
the work for us by fighting each other. The sewage on 
reaching the bottom of these stone beds is practically pure, 
and is then carried by intercepting channels leading to a 
central channel under the stone beds, which finally delivers 
the purified sewage to the settling basins, requiring three 
hours to pass thru. These settling basins are not for the 
purpose of causing additional purification, but to clarify the 
fluid, as there are certain mineral substances in the sewage 
which the bacteria do not annihilate, such as are found in 
the Mississippi River water, which is muddy out not in- 
jurious to drink. The sewage then passes with a drop of 
18 feet thru the power house, in which turbines are placed, 
operated by the flow of the sewage. They in turn run dyna- 
mos which generate electricity, giving us power to light 
the plant, run the sludge pumps, and lift the clarified sew- 
age to a water-tower for flushing purposes. 

In other words, by the simple gravity flow of the sew- 
age it is purified, and power is obtained to light and run the 
plant at practically no cost. 

It all comes down to the fact that we are getting 
nearer to the laws of God than ever before, which laws 
man cannot improve on, but can only strive to follow. For 
instance: 

The pumps lifting the sewage from the low level to the 
Outfall Sewer are as the sun drawing the salt water from 
the sea to the cloud; the fiow of the sewage thru the Outfall 
Sewer to the Disposal Plant is the cloud drifting thru the 
air; the spraying of the sewage over the stone beds is the 
rain falling from the cloud to the earth; the trickling of 
the sewage down thru the stones is the rain sinking into 
the earth; the purified sewage coming out into the settling 
basins is the spring water bubbling out of the ground, and 
the electric light produced by the fiow of the sewage is the 
sunshine after the clouds have passed. 

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SOME ARCHITECTURAL NOTES. 

By Laurence Hall Fowler. 

The purpose of these notes is to call the attention of 
the visitor to the older and more modest houses and local- 
ities which, attractive and interesting in themselves, have 
also a decided local character. In passing, some of the 
more important and larger buildings will be mentioned. 

The fire of 1904, burning through the heart of the City, 
destroyed a number of buildings of both historical and 
architectural interest. The only part of the old town left 
is that to the East of Jones' Falls, and between Baltimore 
Street and the water. This section, originally occupied 
by the sea-faring population, still has many quaint and 
picturesque corners for those with the time and taste for 
exploring. Here and there along E. Pratt, E. Lombard, 
Albemarle, Aliceanna, Fell, Thames and Shakespeare 
Streets, occur attractive old door-ways, with good wrought 
iron railings outside and graceful hallway arches and stairs 
within. Anyone with an eye for the picturesque will also 
be attracted by the massing of the gables and tall chimneys. 

The part of the City which has most character and 
charm covers a comparatively small area, and is within 
easy walking distance of your headquarters. 

Roughly speaking, it is bounded by Read Street on the 
north, Saratoga Street on the south. Park Avenue on the 
west, and Calvert Street on the east. Two short walking 
trips will take in most of this section. 

TRIP NO. 1. 
(Starting at the Corner of Saratoga and Cathedral Streets.) 

On the corner stands the delightful old Rectory of 
Saint Paul's Church (1791), forming a picture worthy of 
an English town. The dignified red brick house next to 
the Rectory, formerly the home of Johns Hopkins, is a good 
example of the fine dwelling of ante-bellum days. Saint 
Paul's Church, the original parish church of Baltimore 
County, closes the vista of Saratoga Street to the east. 

Walking north on Cathedral Street you see, at the top 
of the hill, the Roman Catholic Cathedral with its gilded 
dome and splendid porch, a fine design by B. H. Latrobe 
(1800). The effective interior is marred by the rather 
doubtful taste of the painted decorations. 

On Mulberry Street opposite the side entrance to the 
Cathedral, is a most attractive old dwelling of the curved 
front, Boston type. The windows in this house still retain 
much of the coveted purple glass. 

On Cathedral Street, in front of the Cathedral, notice 
No. 406, a well proportioned example of the typical Balti- 
more dwelling of the first half of the 19th Century; and 
also Nos. 408, 410 and 412, good early types of the English 
basement house which is now being revived with such de- 
cided success. 

Continue north on Cathedral Street to Franklin, then 
turn west on Franklin Street. In No. 105, the Maryland 
Academy of Science, there is a beautiful circular stairway 
hall; still charming in spite of the paper and paint. 

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Going west to Park Avenue and north on Park, to 
Centre Street, notice especially the two large houses at 
Center Street. Now retrace your steps to Cathedral Street. 
No doubt you have already admired the effective Greek 
Ionic doorway of the Y. W. C. A. and the facades and en- 
trances of Nos. 126 and 118 W. Franklin. Especially worthy 
of study is the splendid iron work of No. 118. The Frank- 
lin Street Presbyterian Church, with its attractive Tudor 
Gothic front, brings us again to Cathedral Street. 

Just north of Center, on the west side of Cathedral, 
are several dignified dwellings, of the kind for which the 
north side of Washington Square in New York is so much 
admired. 

Next comes Monument Street, and on the east, Mount 
Vernon Place, the goal of Trip No. 2. West on Monument 
Street No. 107, is an unusually fine example of the Ameri- 
can Greek Revival. The heavy cast iron balconies are an 
unfortunate addition, but the excellent proportions of the 
front and of the porch, and the relation of the one to the 
other, are unusually pleasing. The qualities which give 
this house distinction are often missing in the more bril- 
liant and elaborate work of today. 

Farther west, at the corner of Park, is Grace Church 
(1850), in exterior and interior a very excellent Gothic 
design. 

Returning to Cathedral Street and walking north, you 
will see over the housetops to the west, the tall graceful 
spire of the First Presbyterian Church at Park Avenue 
and Madison Street (1854). The rest of the church has 
no particular merit, and all the detail is poor, but the spire, 
both in silhouette and in colour, is very beautiful, especially 
as seen up Madison Street by the half light of early 
evening. 

Because of the great interest now taken in City Plan- 
ning, it may be worth while calling attention to the modest 
example which Cathedral Street gives of the charm added 
to a street by occasionally changing its direction. No 
doubt, every one will agree that, inadequate as are the 
terminal features, the small gilt dome of the Rennert at 
the south, and the row of houses with their straight cornice 
line on the north — nevertheless, the result is more inter- 
esting than the usual uninterrupted view into infinity. 

The Belvedere is now three blocks to the north and one 
to the east. 

TRIP NO. II. 

(Starting at the Court House.) 

After having seen the dignified colonnade of the Cal- 
vert Street facade of the Court House, with the unique 
Battle Monument in front (Maximillian Godefroy, Archi- 
tect; 1815), start from the St. Paul Street entrance and 
walk north to Pleasant Street. Notice first the group of 
old residences on the east side, and then those on the west 
beyond Saratoga. The large building at the corner of Sara- 
toga is the home of the Maryland Historical Society. 

Those who care to wander in search of the picturesque 
might be repaid by traversing Courtland btreet and the 
steep hills leading down to Calvert. 

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WASHINGTON SQUARE 



Showing the Belvedere, Washington Monument, Mt. Vernon Place 
M. E. Church, and the Peabody Institute 



At the corner of St. Paul and Pleasant is a fine old 
house with picturesque porches at the rear, and on the 
side and front, charming doorways of typical colonial de- 
sign. 

Up Pleasant, at No. 11, you will find a front with well 
spaced windows and a fine doorway with hospitably curved 
steps. Opposite are several little houses which might have 
served as models for Pieter de Hooch. 

At Charles Street, turn north to Mulberry, where can 
be had a good view of the Cathedral, and farther on, just 
beyond the Cardinal's residence, an attractive peep at the 
dome. 

Nos. 415 and 417 Charles Street have doorways worth 
seeing, while at the corner of Franklin Street stands 
the Unitarian Church (Maximillian Godefroy, Architect, 
1817). This building is particularly dignified and ef- 
fective and shows what excellent results can be obtained 
from simple motives and materials when they are well 
handled. North of the church. No. 516 Charles St., is an- 
other good example of the early Baltimore type, and more 
purple glass, while across the street is a rapidly disappear- 
ing row of marble steps with good wrought iron work.* 

At Center Street starts the first and the most restful 
and pleasing of the four parked squares radiating from the 
Washington Monument, except for the Wallis Statue, un- 
fortunately placed in the middle of the walk. 

The new Walters Art Gallery on the west side is a 
sensitive and refined study in the Italian Renaissance, as 
practised by Bramante & Peruzzi. One who has been in the 
beautiful courtyard of the University at Genoa will recog- 
nize the inspiration for the effective court of this Art Gal- 
lery. 

The Washington Monument (Robert Mills, Architect, 
1815), and the squares about it, form undoubtedly the finest 
civic center of the kind in this country. The effect depends 
upon the proportion and simplicity of the scheme rather 
than upon any excellence of detail in the surrounding 
buildings. The houses most worthy of notice are Nos. 1, 
8 and 11 West Mount Vernon Place. 

It is hoped that a law recently passed will prevent the 
erection of any more tall buildings in the immediate neigh- 
borhood of the monument. 

The Belvedere is now four blocks directly north of you. 

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 

1. Those who visit the tomb of Poe should also see the 
effective gateway to the old grave yard. 

2. The McKim Free School (1816) at Baltimore and 
Aisquith Streets, and the old Quaker Meeting House (1780) 
just behind, are interesting relics of the past. 

3. The Shot Tower (1828) on Fayette and Front 
Streets is conspicuous from many directions, but appears 
from the Gay Street Bridge most effective in connection 
with the Church of St. Vincent de Paul. 

4. The finest of the Public Buildings erected since the 
fire is the Custom House. Its stately appearance is due 
to the repetition of a well designed motive of large scale. 

*At No. 523, the Handicraft Shop, can be bought photographs and post 
cards of some of the buildings we have seen. 

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MT. VERNON PLACE 

5. In the newly built business section, the best block 
is certainly that on the North side of German Street, be- 
tween Calvert and South Streets. 

At Baltimore and Calvert Streets is the Emerson Hotel 
with effective interiors, and also the refined little bank of 
Alex. Brown & Sons. Farther west, at Charles Street, 
stands the Savings Bank of Baltimore, a scholarly version 
of the Greek Ionic, and the offices of the Baltimore & Ohio 
R. R., an excellent example of the modern tall building. 

6. The Bryn Mawr School, on Cathedral and Preston 
Streets, a very personal design, is noteworthy for its brick 
work. 

7. The Maryland Institute is a remarkably strong, yet 
charming, building, worthy of its prototypes of the Floren- 
tine Renaissance. 

Few handsome dwellings are now being built in the 
City, but mostly in the suburbs and the rolling country 
beyond, to the north and west. Roland Park, one of the 
finest suburbs in the country, is easily reached by car from 
the Belvedere. This car passes the picturesque group of the 
First Methodist Church and the Goucher College Buildings 
at 22nd Street, and, after leaving 31st Street, comes in 
sight of "Homewood," the exquisite house built in 1800 by 
Charles Carroll. 

"Homewood" should be carefully studied as it is one 
of the most beautiful of all our Colonial dwellings. In- 
deed, in the nice relation of the wings to the center, and 
of the porch to the whole, it excels them all, but in detail, 
it is inferior to much Colonial work, both in the North and 
the South. The scheme of a center building, with lower side 
wings, is especially typical of early Maryland design, beau- 
tiful examples of which will be seen by those who are 
fortunate enough to visit the charming old Capital of 
Maryland. 

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THE MARYLAND INSTITUTE. 

By James Frederick Hopkins. 

The Maryland Institute was organized January, 1848. 
One of its earliest activities was the establishment of 
Schools of Art and Design. These, for more than sixty 
years, have been maintained with expanding usefulness, 
and are today its prominent features. From a night school 
of 150 pupils these schools have so grown that ten times 
that number are enrolled now in a year, instructed by a 
faculty of forty-five teachers in day, night and Saturday 
classes. The courses embrace thorough training in Draw- 
ing, Design, Painting in Oil and Water Colors, Modeling in 
Clay, Illustration, and the Industrial features of Mechanical 
and Architectural Drawing, Design, and Applied Art, car- 
ried on in the actual materials of clay, metal, wood and 
leather. 

The Mount Royal Avenue Building gives accommoda- 
tion for the entire Day School and the Free-Hand night 
classes, the Mechanical and Architectural Divisions of the 
Night School occupying the spacious building at Market 
Place and East Baltimore Street, built especially for its use, 
and where also is maintained a flourishing Elementary 
Mechanical class on Saturdays. 

The establishment of evening classes in Silversmith- 
ing and Jewelry will be hailed, as is believed, with satis- 
faction by the large number of young workmen and learn- 
ers engaged in those branches in our City as offering in- 
struction and practice in departments of art work, whose 
value and importance have always been recognized. 

In the Institute Night Schools thousands of young men 
have received a practical art education better fitting them 
for their life vocations and making them skilled and 
trained mechanics and artisans rather than mere routine 
laborers. In the factories, workshops, drafting rooms, and 
offices of this City, and of the country at large, are every- 
where found their graduates who have fought their way to 
business success and financial independence largely by 
help of the preparation here received. 

On the Fine Arts side instructors were selected who 
made good their promise of development, and our roster 
carries the names of many whose careers won them repu- 
tation, and reflect credit on the Institute. Numerous pupils 
have achieved scholarships in advanced schools, gaining, in 
the keen competition prevailing in home and foreign 
studios and salons, honors which gave ours distinction as 
a training school for artists. By their association with 
the schools, such artists as Rinehart, Turner, Adams, Way, 
the Keysers, the Jones brothers, Schuler, Berge, Miller, 
Bernstein, and others, have given a luster which will be 
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J. C. Cazin 

From the Lucas Collection 



In the Gallery, which, though not of large proportions, 
is admirably designed and lighted, it is proposed to assem- 
ble a permanent exhibition of works of art for the in- 
struction and inspiration of students and the pleasure and 
advantage of the public. In the Museum will be found 
collections of casts, models, ceramics, gems, carvings, and 
tapestries. 

Meanwhile, there will be occasional displays of the 
works of artists, in oil, pastel and water colors; and in 
marble and bronze, examples of etchings, engravings, hand 
craft, needlework, etc., to the end that taste may be stim- 
ulated and the performances of real artists seen and en- 
joyed by an appreciative community. 

The recent noble gift of the George A. Lucas Collection, 
including oil, pastel and water color paintings, etchings 
and engravings, bronzes, porcelains, art publications, etc., 
enriches our gallery to a measure the managers could 
hardly have ventured to hope for, largely restoring the 
losses of the accumulated treasures sustained by the great 
fire which destroyed our historic and venerable building in 
1904, and presents for the inspection and study of students, 
as well as for their incitement and encouragement, a series 
of magnificent art objects such as few schools are so for- 
tunate as to possess. 

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•ARAB HORSEMAN " 

By Ad. Schreyer 

From the Lucas Collection 



In the collection bequeathed by Mr. Lucas to the Insti- 
tute were also included a number of sketches and drawings 
adapted for use in the studios and class rooms, also about 
ten thousand engravings, etchings, proofs and prints, and a 
working library of some fifteen hundred volumes. 

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WALTERS ART GALLERY. 

By Winifred R. Hazeltine. 

The home of the magnificent art collection known by 
the name of its founder, William T. Walters, is a fine 
building on Washington Place, one of the beautiful small 
parks of the City. The Gallery is two stories in height 
with windows on the ground floor, and pilasters with Corin- 
thian capitals, surmounted under the cornice by a frieze 
on the second story. Over the massive bronze door is a 
white marble cartouche, containing a bronze bust of the 
late William T. Walters, founder of the Art Gallery. 

The interior court contains balustrades of white marble 
and twin columns supporting the second floor gallery; in 
the center is a magnificent marble fountain. 

Four private galleries are on the first floor; one is dec- 
orated in cream and gold, another in white and gold, a 
third in dark wood, the fourth in grayish-white; every 
detail in the last one being Gothic. A magnificent stair- 
case leads to the second floor. Behind it is a museum, 
built of stone, containing relics of the Spanish inquisition, 
and other rare antiques. 

The four main galleries on the second floor are ex- 
tremely beautiful. They are surrounded by a marble cor- 
ridor eight feet wide. All the floors are of inlaid wood. 

The lighting of the gallery is said to be the best in the 
world. The roof forms an immense skylight, beneath which 
is a contrivance providing for expansion of glass, and 
moisture in the air. The electric lamps are invisibly placed 
to throw a flood of light on the proper panels. The fixtures 
are of wrought bronze. 

The collection of art treasures was begun by the late 
William T. Walters, and has been added to yearly by his 
son. Before the completion of its present home, it was 
stored in London, New York, and Baltimore. It is equalled 
by very few in this country, and surpassed by none. The 
Massarenti collection of marbles, antiques of Roman or 
Greek origin, was one of the finest in Europe. It was 
purchased in 1902 from Don Marcello Massarenti, a Roman 
nobleman, for $1,000,000 in cash. Art critics have esti- 
mated the paintings to be worth $2,000,000. 

The Italian schools lead in number and value; they are 
displayed in the North gallery. Raphael's "Madonna of the 
Candelabra" is one of the most noted, and a portrait of 
Raphael by himself is also very valuable. Michael Angelo's 
portrait from his own studio, Titian's "St. Christopher," 
"Tribute Money," and "Duke of Urbino" are here also. 
Other masters represented are Bellini, Crivelli, Tintoretto, 
Botticelli, Andrea del Sarto. 

The modern school is represented by some notable 
works: Rousseau's "Winter Solitude," "Millet's "Sheepfold," 
"The Potato Harvest," "Breaking Flax," and the won- 
derful "Angelus," Gerome's "Christian Martyrs," Breton's 
"Returning from the Fields," some smaller works of Corot, 
the Fortunys, and many others. 

The Dutch, Flemish, German, French, Spanish and 
English schools are represented by famous masterpieces. 

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A small gallery contains the water colors and designs. 
Here are shown a large number of works by J. W. M. 
Turner, four cravons of Millet's most celebrated works, 
and others by LaFarge, Bonheur, Alma Tadema, and 
many more. 

In the collection of marbles, the most noted are the 
sarcophagi found in an imperial cemetery near Ports 
Salaria. They are elaborately decorated and priceless in 
value, having been made by Greek sculptors in the first 
century. One is said to have contained the ashes of Pom- 
pey the Great; in some have rested the remains of other 
noted Romans. Here, too, are many Roman busts, and 
fragments of marble statues. In the centre of this court 
is the noted bronze statue of "Le Penseur," by Rodin. 

The collection of ceramics is as famous as the paint- 
ings of the Art Gallery. Cases containing Limoges enamels 
of the 13th to the 18th century. Persian tiles and potteries, 
and other rare antiques are in this court. Italian majolica, 
carved ivories from the workshops of the middle centuries, 
and those of the last three centuries, ancient Chinese 
ivories, Palissy ware; statues and busts of wood, stone, 
bronze, and terra cotta, with interesting relics from old 
churches, are shown under the loggia on the second floor. 
On the left is the Barye room, containing bronzes, and 
works in oil and water colors by this artist. Beyond this 
is a long room with an Italian carved wood ceiling from a 
palace in Milan. Around the room are eighteen richly 
carved choir stalls from a convent in France, dating from 
the 16th century. Other specimens of carved wood, antique 
Saracen armor and Persian ivories and tiles are to be seen 
here. 

In the next room are the collections of English por- 
celain, Wedgewood, Chelsea, Worcester, etc. Greek and 
Egyptian bronzes and terra cottas. Etruscan vases, and 
other antiques are in the cases. In the last room are shown 
Greek and Roman bronzes, from the 7th century B. C. to the 
second century A. D. A very interesting case is the one 
containing five cists of the fifth century B. C; they were 
used by Roman ladies for holding toilet articles and cos- 
metics. This case also holds some Egyptian antiquities 
dating back to 2000 B. C. 

On the other side of the building are a number of 
rooms furnished in the different styles of French art. 

In the second gallery, where the modern pictures are 
shown, may be found cases of Chinese porcelains, .lapanese 
lacquers, Turkish jeweled ware, carved crystal and agate 
objects; also a collection of French, English, and American 
miniatures, watches, and jewelry, ancient, mediaeval, and 
modern. Sevres and Dresden porcelain of the 18th cen- 
tury are in this collection. 

Opposite the entrance to the upper loggia are two 
stained glass windows from the Cathedral of Sens, dated 
1294. Around the loggia is the collection of Oriental cera- 
mics, bronzes, jades, and crystals. The walls are hung 
with French tapestries of the fifteenth century; Gobelin, 
Flemish, Brussels, Teniers, Japanese tapestries, and Per- 
sian rugs. 

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THE PEABODY INSTITUTE. 

By Alice A. White. 

The Peabody Institute, situated on the corner of 
Charles Street and Mt. Vernon Place, was founded in the 
year 1857 by George Peabody, who designed it to be an in- 
stitution in which advanced students might carry on the 
study of the higher branches of art and science. 

This institution contains a students' library of 174,323 
volumes valued at over $500,000. Mr. Peabody's purpose 
in establishing this library was to make it "satisfy the re- 
searches of students in the pursuit of knowledge in the 
private libraries of the country." The results achieved by 
the execution of his plan are well known, inasmuch as the 
Peabody Library is now recognized as one of the greatest 
libraries in this country. The use of its rooms for the 
enjoyment of its facilities is free to all. 

In this building is also maintained a Conservatory of 
Music, designed, in the words of its founder, to be "adapted 
in the most effective manner to diffuse and cultivate a 
taste for music, the most refining of all the arts, by pro- 
viding a means of studying its principles and practising 
its compositions, and by periodical concerts, aided by the 
best talent and most eminent skill within the means of 
the Trustees to procure." The Peabody Conservatory of 
Music is practically the only endowed institution of Its kind 
in this country; and for this reason it is able to maintain 
a higher standard for graduation than any of its fellow 
conservatories. Every week concerts are given here for the 
entertainment and instruction of the public. 

In addition to its great public library and Conserva- 
tory of Music, the Peabody Institute Building contains an 
Invaluable collection of statuary and paintings, to which 
all persons are freely admitted during the hours when 
the building is open, from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. This gallery 
of art, which originated with Mr. John W. McCoy's dona- 
tion to the institute of Rinehart's statue of Clytie, con- 
tains at the present time a number of paintings of note, as 
well as over six hundred works of sculpture, including 
many reproductions of work by the best masters of ancient 
and modern art. 

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"A PRIMITIVE CHANT" 
By Herman A. Mac Neil 



Peabodv Prize Composition. Rome, 1897 



MURAL DECORATIONS IN THE BALTI- 
MORE COURT HOUSE. 

By E. a. Doetsch. 
(Baltimore News). 

.The Principal mural decorations of interest in Balti- ■ 
more are those in the Court House by Turner, Blashfleld, 
and LaFarge. Letters by Turner and Blashfleld which ap- 
pear in a little book on "Mural Decorations in the Balti- 
more Court House" describe the paintings as follows: 

Letter of Charles Yardley Turner: 

"In the mural painting 'The Burning of the Peggy 
Stewart,' my purpose was to express the protest upon the 
part of Maryland's citizens against the oppression of the 
mother country. The burning vessel has been used as the 
symbol and outward manifestation of this protest against 
'taxation without representation.' 

"In the centre panel I have placed Charles Carroll of 
Carrollton as the leader of the 'Committee of Safety;' op- 
posite him Dr. Warfield, the leader of the then called mob, 
with his followers behind him. Both groups are extended 
into the picture, terminating at the right in a group of 
ladies and gentlemen standing on the green near the Stew- 
art mansion watching the conflagration, and at the ex- 
treme left hand, with another group of citizens, Anthony 
Stewart, one of the principal actors in this drama, may 
be seen in shirt sleeves, having performed his part in 
firing his own vessel. 

"The point of view is from a spot about where the 
present boathouse stands in the Annapolis Academy 
grounds, looking nearly East over the Chesapeake, called 
Windmill Point." 

Letter of Edwin Howland Blashfleld describing the 
decoration, "Religious Toleration." 

"What I intended to suggest was simply Lord Balti- 
more commending his people to Wisdom, Justice and 
Mercy. Wisdom holds out the olive branch of Peace to 
the tolerant. Behind Lord Baltimore a Catholic priest and 
a Protestant pastor hold between them the edict of tolera- 
tion. A negress and an Indian squaw crouch behind Bal- 
timore and lay hold of his mantle of black and gold (the 
colors of the commonwealth). To right and left and in 
the side panels are other flgures of colonists introduced 
simply to flU out the composition decoratively. At the side 
of Justice a boy holds a shield with the date 1649, the 
year of the edict. In the centre of the decoration a nude 
boy holds the scales level as a symbol of equity, and points 
upward to the motto of the Baltimores, 'Thou hast covered 
us with the shield of Thy good will." The background is 
woodland with a suggestion of the bay. I think that my 
'Washington' work for Baltimore showed progress upon 
anything that I had done before, and that my 'Lord Balti- 
more' is a decided advance upon the other." 

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Letter of Charles Yardley Turner describing his 
"Treaty of Calvert with the Indians." 

"Governor Leonard Calvert and his fellow Pilgrims ar- 
rived at the mouth of the Potomac River in March, 1634. 

"They were met by friendly Indians, Yaocomicos, un- 
der the sovereignty of the Emperor of Piscataway, from 
whom they bought a tract of land for axes, hoes and cloth, 
and laid out the plan of a city which they called St. Mary's. 
"The decorative composition represents a conference 
with the Indians, having for its object the barter of agri- 
cultural implements and a cloth for a tract of land. The 
central group consists of Governor Calvert and his com- 
panions conversing with Indian chiefs; extending into the 
other panels are more Indians and English. 

"The extreme left-hand panel is intended to suggest the 
domestic side of Indian life. A squaw tries a new hoe and 
a brave curiously admires an axe recently used by the boy 
in chopping wood, while an old man in a blanket looks 
on. In the background is shown the end of their long 
house, the landscape stretching away in the distance; trees, 
bare of foliage, are traced against the sky. To the right, 
behind Calvert, are English Pilgrims. 

"The right-hand panel, containing a view of the river 
and distant shore, with the ships riding at anchor, shows 
in the immediate foreground a family group occupied with 
the view. 

"The group of Indians and English are gathered near 
a grove of trees which forms the background, the shore 
and the river extending across the right-hand part of the 
composition. 

"My desire was to emphasize the fact that the land was 
purchased, not taken by conquest, from the Indians. 

"I have made the Indians in the first panel interested 
in the implements exchanged, introducing such matter as 
might seem natural and at the same time meet the re- 
quirements of the decoration. 

"The centre panel deals with the meeting and confer- 
ence, or barter; Leonard Calvert is facing the Indian chiefs 
with some of his followers. I intended the one with his 
hat removed for Captain Fleete, acting as interpreter. 
Some of the Indians are examining a piece of red cloth. 

"In the third panel I have tried to suggest the interest 
the family had in the place where they were to settle, — 
by the banks of the river. 

"The paintings are not intended to represent a par- 
ticular incident, occurring at a special moment, but are 
meant to convey the thought and action which pertained 
to the purchase of the land. 

"Hence the title: 'Barter with the Indians for land in 
Southern Maryland, 1634.' " 

The following description of the La Farge paintings 
appeared in a local paper: 

The last two paintings of a series of six entitled " The 
Great Lawgivers," by John La Farge, the celebrated Ameri- 
can artist, were placed in 1907 in the west lobby of the 



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Court House beside the four that now adorn a corridor In 
that magnificent building. 

The two panels represent the Emperor Justinian and 
Moses. The Emperor stands erect addressing one of his 
illustrious subjects on a question of law. At his right is the 
Empress Theodora. 

Moses is shown seated beneath a cloud leaning on the 
tables of the law. At one side is Joshua listening to the 
words of wisdom from the leader of the Hebrew tribes. 

The other four paintings represent Lycurgus, the law- 
giver of the Spartans; Numa, the reputed founder of 
Roman law and the Roman religion; Confucius, the 
founder of the laws and philosophy of China, and Mo- 
hammed, lawmaker, philosopher and prophet. 

The pictures are striking in several respects: First, 
they show from what source each of these great men de- 
rived his inspiration. Any great man of modern times 
would be a jarring note in this inspiration scheme, as it 
were, for most moderns are supposed to get their inspira- 
tion from within. Confucius, the greatest of all China- 
men, is shown seated on his apricot throne playing on 
musical instruments. Nearby stand two of his disciples 
interpreting the music before he begins to speak. The sig- 
nificant feature is, of course, the apricot tree. 

Mohammed is shown in a joyous realm known among 
his followers as Paradise. The source from which Mo- 
hammed was supposed to have derived his insniration was 
Paradise, a rpalm pictured as holding pleasure and hapnl- 
ness after a life of strife. These themes, aside from the 
sheer beauty of the r>aintin°'s — may not appeal to the aver- 
age nn-to-riate American who will look at them, but were 
a Chinaman or Mohammedan to look upon them he would 
in a flash catch their sicnlficance. 

Lycureus is depicted talkine with the Delphic oracle, 
the source of his inspiration according to legendary his- 
tory. 

Numa is shown conversing with a beautiful nymph by 
a stream. Numa. as the legend eoes. decided that inspira- 
tions were more easily found in some dear young creature, 
either real or imagined. In this he was essentially modern. 

Moses' inspiration, of course, came from the cloud, 
while that of the Emperor lawgiver was the Empress The- 
odora. 

Another striking feature of the series is the dull gold 
sky. giving great luminosity to the scenes. A real sky, as 
any casual observer knows, is luminous — light seems to 
come from It. But when the artist paints a sky blue — its 
usual color — the luminosity is lost. Mr. La Farge has made 
his skies golden, and they give light and beauty to an 
unusual degree. 

The Municipal Art Society has been instrumental In 
placing all the mural decorations now In the Court House 
(with the aid of other sources — appropriations from the 
City Council, Daughters of the American Revolution, etc.). 

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UNIVERSITIES AND SCHOOLS. 

By Lilian W. Duval. 

Johns Hopkins University. 

It has been said that the sun never sets on the English 
dominions and it may as truly be remarked that it is diffi- 
cult to reach any section of the Western universe that has 
not heard of Johns Hopkins University, for its reputation 
has traveled much farther than the manufacturing or com- 
mercial interests of Baltimore. This educational and 
scientific school comprises a group of buildings on North 
Howard street, Ross street, and Monument street. This 
group also comprises the United States Weather Bureau, 
the Maryland State Weather Service, and the Maryland 
Geological Survey. The most impressive building is McCoy 
Hall on West Monument Street. Many educational lectures, 
some free to the public, are given here during the v/inter. 

The Physical Laboratory building on the same street is 
worth attention. Altho the university buildings are not as 
impressive or as large as the citizens of Baltimore desire, 
they were built when the university was to a certain extent 
a tentative affair and amply sufficed the demands of the 
time. But the venture is no longer tentative; the univer- 
sity has become most widely known, having students from 
every State in the Union, Canada, and Europe. As it is 
largely devoted to postgraduate and individual research 
work, there are fewer students than at most universities. 

Plans are being made, and money is being collected to 
establish the university at Homewood, and the near future 
will see our renowned university in suitable surroundings 
and commodious buildings. In the meantime, in spite of 
its disadvantages, it will continue to set the standards for 
all similar institutions on this continent. 

Goucher College. (Carrie M. Probst, Registrar). 

The ideal entertained by the founders of the College 
is the formation of womanly character for womanly ends. 
With this in view, facilities have been provided for separate 
higher, education under conditions which may prove equally 
favorable to the promotion of sound health, the develop- 
ment of moral character, and the cultivation of the spir- 
itual life. 

The College is located in the northern part of the City. 
Its principal buildings are Goucher Hall, Bennett Hall, and 
Catherine Hooper Hall, which are situated on St. Paul 
Street, between 22nd and 24th Streets. Glitner, Fensal and 
Vingolf Halls are dormitories exclusively, and are situated 
on Charles Street and on Maryland Avenue. 

School for the Blind. 

The site on North Avenue facing Guilford, now occupied 
by the Polytechnic School, was the home of this school. Its 
present temporary quarters are on North Charles street. At 
this institution, those deprived of vision are taught useful 
occupations and enabled to earn a livelihood. Baltimore 
believes in helping these most unfortunate people to enjoy 
an interest in life, and generous citizens have provided a 
workshop for them. A visit to it will be found most in- 
teresting. 

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other Special Schools. 

There are eight medical schools, three dental, in- 
cluding the College of Dental Surgery, the oldest in the 
world, at Eutaw and Franklin Streets; a school of phar- 
macy and two schools of law. All of these graduate stu- 
dents who have made a name for Baltimore as an educa- 
tional center. 
Preparatory Schools. 

Among these are the Friends School, on Park avenue 
and Laurens Street, which has a complete modern equip- 
ment; Marston's University School for Boys, on Cathedral 
Street; Boys' Latin School, on Brevard Street, facing 
Mount Royal Station; Boys' Country School, on Charles 
Street Avenue; Country School for Girls at Roland Park; 
Girls' Latin School, on St. Paul Street; Bryn Mater School, 
on Cathedral Street, and Calvert Hall, Cathedral Street, 
corner of Mulberry. 

PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 

Gity College. 

The Boys' High School is on North Howard Street next 
to the University buildings. 
Western High School. 

Located on McCullon Street and Lafayette Avenue. 
Eastern High School. 

On Broadway and North avenue. 

These last two schools prepare girls from the element- 
ary schools for business, college or teaching. The City 
College gives the same preparation to boys. 
Training School for Teachers. 

This is one of the public schools which receives stu- 
dents from the high schools and prepares them for the 
vocation of teaching. At present it is under the supervision 
and management of Dr. Manny, a man of international 
reputation as an organizer. 

The Normal School. 

This is a similar school, yet it includes the secondary 
branches with its training. To this institution come those 
from the counties of Maryland who wish to enter the teach- 
ing force. This building is on the Northwest corner of 
Lafayette and Carrollton Avenues. Its front door directly 
faces the corner of Lafayette Square, which is one of the 
scenic spots of Baltimore. 
Polytechnic Institute. 

The course of study for the Baltimore Polytechnic 
Institute is designed to accomplish the following purposes: 

1. To give a sound fundamental education to pupils 
whose inclinations and other circumstances preclude a 
college course. 

2. To give to youth that healthful and highly valua- 
ble manual training which broadens education, and con- 
duces to dexterity, contrivance, and invention. 

To this end the time usually devoted to Greek and 
Latin is employed, during two years of the course, in 
carpentry, sheet-metal, and light forge exercise. These 
exercises cover what is known as Manual Training, and 
are given with special reference to their educational value. 

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3. To give to students in the third and fourth years 
such studies in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, and 
such mechanical exercises in Applied Manual Training 
as will fit them: 

(a) For immediate and remunerative employment 
in the drafting-room, or for engagements in the wide field 
of civil, mechanical and electrical engineering, where, it is 
believed, their training will lead to rapid advancement. 

(b) For entrance to advanced standing into an in- 
stitution of technology, should a higher technical educa- 
tion be desired. 

For the attainment of these objects there is one care- 
fully planned general course of study, no effort being 
made to specialize until the fourth year, by which time 
a student will have acquired a considerable degree of 
practical skill and intimate knowledge in some one of the 
professions based on mechanical art and applied science 
that he may have elected to follow. Thus, for example, 
the student who may, toward the end of the course, elect 
to follow electrical engineering as a profession, will be 
afforded special opportunities for laboratory practice in 
the manipulation of currents, methods of testing, etc. 

The Colored High and Manual Training School is 
located on Pennsylvania avenue and Dolphin street. 

THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. 

These come next in our list and train the pupil almost, 
and, if we include the kindergarten, quite from infancy 
(five and one-half years) up to the age of fourteen, or when 
he is able to enter the secondary schools. These are situ- 
ated in all parts of the City. 




BELIEVE ME, THEY WERE GOOD OLD DAYS' 
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MONUMENTS AND SCULPTURE. 

By Elizabeth A. Keyworth. 

Baltimore is often called the 
"Monumental City," but this des- 
ignation arose not so much from 
the number of its monuments as 
from the fact that it was the 
first city in America that could 
boast of having erected a worthy 
monument to WASHINGTON. 
The Doric column of white Mary- 
land marble standing at the in- 
tersection of Monument and 
Charles Streets was erected by the State of Maryland in 
his honor. It is 164 feet high, and is surmounted by a 
statue 16 feet in height representing Washington in the 
act of resigning his commission. 

At the base of Washington Monument are four small 
parks, in which a number of bronze statues form an orna- 
mental feature. 

In the park East of the Monument is a statue in bronze 
of GEORGE PEABODY, by William Story, a copy of the 
one which stands near the Royal Exchange in the City 
of London. It is the gift of Mr. Robert Garrett. 

South of the Monument is a statue of SEVERN 
TEACKLE WALLIS, a citizen distinguished for his legal 
attainments, his literary abilities, and the high standards 
of civic righteousness for which he strove. 

The Western park is beautified by the works of the 
famous sculptor, A. L. Barye. A colossal lion faces the 
East and nearby are four smaller pieces which were de- 
signed to decorate the pavilion of the new Louvre at 
Paris. They represent Peace, War, Force and Order. These, 
with the figure by Dubois, entitled "Military Courage," 
were presented to the City by the late William T. Walters, 
whose handsome residence faces the square. 

In the North park is a bronze of ROGER BROOKE 
TANEY, Chief Justice of the United States from 1836 to 
1864. This is the work of William Henry Rinehart, a 
Maryland sculptor. In this square, facing North Charles 
street, is an equestrian statue of JOHN EAGER HOWARD, 
whose skill and valor in the Revolutionary War reflected 
honor upon his native state. Colonel Howard was the pro- 
prietor of Belvedere, a vast estate, upon a part of which 
the Hotel Belvedere now stands. 

Leaving Washington Monument, one will find scattered 
over the City memorials to those whom Baltimore wished 
to honor. 

In the grounds of the Samuel Ready School, near the 
Eastern High School, stands a slender shaft of brick 
covered with stucco, which is interesting as the first 
monument raised in the New World to the memory of 
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. It was erected by Chevail 
d'Amour, the French Consul, on what was then his private 

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'THE SEPARATION OF ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE BY HERMES 
By J. Maxwell Miller 



estate. One hundred years after its erection, a statue of 
Christopher Columbus, presented by the Italian residents 
of Baltimore, was unveiled in Druid Hill Park. 

The WELLS AND McCOMAS monument at Gay and 
Aisquith Streets tells of the valor of two Baltimore youths 
to whom is credited the death of the British General Ross 
at North Point, 1814. Having disclosed their position, by 
this act, they fell shortly after. 

On Mount Royal Avenue, near the Maryland Institute, 
are two monuments, one the beautiful CONFEDERATE 
MONUMENT, the other the statue erected to the memory 
of LIEUTENANT COLONEL WILLIAM H. WATSON, 
commander of the Second Maryland Regiment of Volun- 
teers, who fell in the battle of Monterey in 1846. This 
monument is the work of a distinguished Baltimore sculp- 
tor, Edward Berge. 

About three blocks to the north of these monuments 
is the Mount Royal entrance to Druid Hill Park, at which 
point may be seen a monument erected to the memory 
of Soldiers and Sailors. Inside the park is the COLUMBUS 
MONUMENT, erected in 1892, also the WALLACE monu- 
ment in memory of Sir William Wallace, "liberator of 
Scotland." 

The ARMISTEAD monument on Federal Hill honors 
the memory of Lieut. Col. George Armistead, who conducted 
the defense of Fort McHenry, in 1814. 

The Independent Order of Odd Fellows has not been 
forgetful of its founders, and has erected two public 
monuments, one on Broadway near Fayette Street, in 
honor of THOMAS WILDEY, who established the order 
here in 1819. The RIDGELY monument in Harlem Park 
honors the memory of James L. Ridgely, secretary and 
historian of the order. 

To the memory of FRANCIS SCOTT KEY a symbolic 
monument has been erected on Eutaw Place near Lanvale 
street. 

Perhaps the most interesting shaft erected in Balti- 
more (from the point of view of the general public) is the 
memorial over the grave of Edgar Allan Poe, in West- 
minster churchyard. This . was the gift of the public 
school teachers and children of this city. 

Many interesting tombs may be seen in the cemeteries 
of Baltimore, among them notably Greenmount Cemetery. 
Here is the tomb of WILLIAM HENRY RINEHART, the 
distinguished Maryland sculptor. The visitor is impressed 
by the beauty and significance of "The Sleeping En- 
dymion," the thought of Rinehart himself. This is a 
bronze replica of the exquisite marble "Endymion" now 
in the Art Gallery of Miss Mary Garrett. Other works 
of Rinehart in this cemetery are "The Sleeping Children," 
in the grounds of the Sisson family, and the memorial 
tomb of the late William T. Walters. 

In the art gallery of the Peabody Institute may be 
seen replicas in plaster of many works of this sculptor. 

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"THE VIOLET" 
By Hans Schuler 



The statue in marble entitled "Clytie" stands at the en- 
trance to the Rinehart corridor, in which are the original 
casts of portrait busts from his Roman studio. 

Among the distinguished living sculptors of Baltimore 
may be mentioned four of international reputation — 
Ephraim Keyser, J. Maxwell Miller, Hans Schuler and 
Edward Berge. 

EPHRAIM KEYSER. Instructor at the Maryland In- 
stitute and the Rinehart School for Sculpture. 

Public works in Baltimore: Busts of Sidney Lanier 
and John W. McCoy at Johns Hopkins University; memo- 
rial tablets at Masonic Temple, State Normal School, West- 
ern High School, four bronze relief memorials at the Balti- 
more Hebrew Cemetery. 

Public works in other cities: Statue of Major General 
Baron de Kalb at Annapolis, Md., Memorial to President 
Chester A. Arthur at Rural Cemetery, Albany, N. Y., statue 
of Psyche at Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio. 

J. MAXWELL MILLER was born in Baltimore, Md., 
December 23, 1877. Studied at the Maryland Institute four 
years, sculpture under Ephraim Keyser; in the Rinehart 
School of Sculpture, three years, under Charles J. Pike, 
and at the Charcoal Club, under S. Edwin Whiteman. 
Student in Paris, four years (Rinehart Scholarship) at 
Academie Julien, and with Raoul Verlet. Awarded three 
Concours Medals, Academie Julien, 1901; Honorable Men- 
tion, Salon des Artistes Francais, 1902; and Silver Medal 
Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904. Member 
of the National Sculpture Society. 

Represented in the Walters Art Gallery, the Peabody 
Institute, the Maryland Institute, Baltimore, and in the 
St. Louis Museum of Fine Arts. 

HANS SCHULER was born in Elsass-Loraine, Ger- 
many, 1874. Studied at Maryland Institute, Rinehart 
School of Sculpture and Julian Academy, under Ephraim 
Keyser, Charles J. Pike and R. Verlet. Instructor, Maryland 
Institute. Awarded Rinehart Scholarship; Gold Medal, 
Salon, 1901; Silver Medal, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 
1904. Member National Sculpture Society. Represented 
in collections of the Walters Gallery, the Peabody Gallery, 
and the Maryland Institute, Baltimore. 

EDWARD BERGE was born in Baltimore. Studied at 
the Maryland Institute, under Ephraim Keyser and Charles 
J. Pike. Student in Paris, at Julien's Academy, under 
Verlet and A. Rodin. Awarded Bronze Medal, Pan-Ameri- 
can Exhibition, Buffalo (1901), and Gold and Bronze Medal, 
Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis (1904). Mem- 
ber National Sculpture Society. Instructor Maryland In- 
stitute. 

Through the courtesy of Messrs. Keyser, Schuler, Mil- 
ler and Berge we have permission to announce that their 
studios will be open to visitors to the Convention of the 
Eastern Art and Manual Training Teachers' Association, 
May 14, 15, 16. 

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ART SOCIETIES. 

By Lilian W. Duval. 
THE MUNICIPAL ART SOCIETY. 

Organized in 1899, this association has been employing 
its time in beautifying the City. Much of the work has 
been done not by funds alone, but through an attitude of 
helpful suggestion to groups of individuals. 

Its aims are: 

To cultivate the taste and add to the happiness of 
children in the public schools. 

To provide the best examples of the sculptor's and 
painter's art in public buildings and spaces. 

To point out wherein Baltimore is behind other com- 
munities in provision of public needs. 

To emphasize the importance of foresight in the devel- 
opment of the future City. 

As an example of the second aim we may mention the 
equestrian statue of John Eager Howard in Washington 
Place North of the Washington Monument, and the mural 
decoration in the Court House, "Washington Surrendering 
His Commission." 

It might also be mentioned that this society does not 
approve of erecting a beautiful monument or work of art 
in a public space and allowing it to be crowded out of 
view by buildings of a more ordinary nature; hence the 
society carefully watches the height of buildings around 
Washington's monument. 

This association has the sewerage system and the 
width and cleanliness of streets under its surveillance, 
because it is difficult to beautify a city which is unclean. 

Monthly lectures are given under the auspices of the 
society at McCoy Hall, Johns Hopkins University, at which 
the solution of artistic problems of other cities and coun- 
tries is discussed. In addition to these I might add that 
the society holds a series of illustrated lectures on Art 
each winter, open to members of the society, and has for 
several winters past (with the exception of 1911-12) held 
a series of extension illustrated lectures, open to the 
public, on Art, in the Eastern, Western, Southern and 
Southeastern parts of the city. Several years ago the 
society initiated a campaign against the smoke nuisance, 
and started the matter of home gardens and window boxes. 

Although the society in the execution of its aim accepts 
only what it considers the best talent and obtains it from 
any source, home or foreign, it desires to aid art at home, 
especially art in industry. To do this it proposes to estab- 
lish a museum, a library and a workshop, working in 
harmonious conjunction. 
THE HANDICRAFT CLUB OF BALTIMORE. 

This association is organized for the promotion of 
the Arts and Crafts movement in this city. The head- 
quarters are 523 North Charles Street, near Centre Street, 
where one may feast his eyes on most beautifully wrought 
silver or artistic and unique pottery; wonderfully made 
baskets or wood carving. The crafts and craftsmen of 
Baltimore are not the only contributors of these choice 
specimens of hand work, for skillful artisans and artists 
from all parts of the country send their wares here. 

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CHARCOAL CLUB ART SCHOOL. 

By Henry H. Wiegand. 

About a quarter of a century ago, or to be exact, in 
the month of October, 1883, the Charcoal Club was organ- 
ized by a group of art students and friends of art for the 
purpose of conducting Art Classes after the model of the 
renowned French Ateliers, and of holding public Art Ex- 
hibitions. This plan of Art School and Exhibitions started 
at that time has continued with growing importance up to 
the present. 

The Charcoal Club school, which is open to both sexes, 
has day and night classes, and during its career has been 
attended by hundreds of students, many of whom are now 
earning their livelihood by means of the skill and train- 
ing received in this institution. 

The Exhibitions held by the Club vary in importance 
from the small weekly displays of the work of one man, 
which have proven of great interest at the usual gather- 
ing of members on Saturday evenings, to the more repre- 
sentative exhibitions held at the Club studios several times 
during the year, and which open on one of the regular 
"Smoker Nights." More important still are the large an- 
nual exhibitions of American Art, such as were so success- 
fully held at the Maryland Institute in 1909, and the Pea- 
body in 1911. The last exhibition of this character was 
held during the months of February and March of 1912 at 
the Peabody Galleries. These exhibitions are of the great- 
est importance to the art students and the people of Bal- 
timore, as they are there able to view representative works 
of the foremost artists of the land. 

This, the only art club of the City, is now planning 
to enlarge further the scope of its influence, and plans to 
take art to the people by exhibiting pictures, statuary, 
and other art objects in various much frequented public 
places, such as the public libraries, schools, etc. The Club 
also intends to inaugurate at its studios a course of popu- 
lar lectures on Art and Its Application to the Industries of 
the City. 

All the activities of this institution are conducted 
with the most rigid economy by the unpaid officers and 
members of the Club, who are actuated solely by a desire 
to advance the art interests of the City and State. It 
receives no State or municipal aid, and its sole sources 
of income are the membership dues and students' fees. 

The Charcoal Club and its Art School Studios are 
located at the Northeast corner of Howard and Franklin 
Streets in a building especially constructed to meet its 
needs as an art school. 

The Director of the Art School is Professor S. Edwin 
Whiteman. 

The Club and its activities are controlled by the fol- 
lowing artists and business men, who compose its board 
of managers: 

Frederick H. Gottlieb, President; Thomas C. Corner, 
Vice-President; Henry H. Wiegand, Secretary; James S. 
Reese, Treasurer; J. Evans Sperry, Edward Berge, Ephraim 
Keyser, W. Roby Purnell, J. Hemsley Johnson, Everett 
L. Bryant, W. H. Thorndike, C. Irving Ward. 

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NOTES ON MARYLAND AUTHORS. 



By Katharine G. Grasty. 

Maryland was the home of Francis Scott Key, the 
author of "The Star-Spangled Banner," as well as of James 
R. Randall, the author of "Maryland, My Maryland." Here, 
too, lived Edgar Allan Poe, Severn Teackle Wallis, and 
John P. Kennedy; and in our own times, F. Hopkinson 
Smith. 

Few of our authors can be mentioned, even briefly, in 
so short a sketch. Yet from the following notes, it will 
be apparent to the reader why Baltimore enjoys its present 
reputation as a criterion of initial performances of new 
plays. 

EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1849). The most famous 
of all Southern poets was of a Maryland family. In 1829 
he published in Baltimore his first poems, "Al Araaf, Tamer- 
lane and Minor Poems." 

In 1833 Poe competed for a $100 prize for a tale in prose 
and for one in verse. The committee had despaired of 
finding what they desired until they suddenly picked up 
Poe's "Manuscript Found in a Bottle" and awarded both 
prizes to him. Poe became editor of the "Southern Litera- 
ture Messenger" and wrote many tales and reviews. 

Poe's tales have a world wide reputation. Among his 
most remarkable are, "The Gold Bug"; "Purloined Letter"; 
"Fall of the House of Usher"; "Murders in the Rue 
Morgue." His best known poems are "The Raven" and 
"The Bells," and his most lyrical, "Annabel Lee," and "To 
Helen." 

Poe is buried in Baltimore in Westminster Churchyard, 
the location of which is at the corner of Fayette and Greene 
streets. His grave remained unmarked until 1875, when 
the Baltimore school teachers placed the monument which 
is now there. In 1911, Mr. Orrin C. Painter erected the 
present iron gate so that any visitor to the city might go in 
and visit the grave. A notice on this gate tells where the 
key may be found. 

SIDNEY LANIER (Feb. 

3, 1842— Sept. 7, 1881). From 
1873-1881, the last seven years 
of his life, Lanier spent prin- 
cipally in Baltimore, and gave 
himself up to music and liter- 
ature. He became the first 
fiute for the Peabody Sym- 
phony concerts. At the time 
of his death "he had no peer 
as lord of the flute." 

His combination of the 
musical and poetic gift shows 
his great versatility of intel- 
lect, and that "he must be ac- 
corded a place among the fore- 
most names in American liter- 
ature there can be no doubt." 




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Lanier spent many hours at his desk in the Peabody 
Library on Mt. Vernon Place while working on his last 
series of lectures, 1880-1881. Great as was his place as poet 
and musician, his place as critic was even greater, as shown 
in his last work, "Shakespeare and His Forerunners." 

He was lord of the crisp and bristling phrase, combined 
with the rarest grace of utterance. His sense of reverence 
for the ideal purity illustrated in the Southern women, 
enters into his creed as a vital inspiration, as in the poem 
"My Springs." The "Springs" are the eyes of his wife. As 
master of elegy his poem on the death of Bayard Taylor, 
1879, puts him in the forefront. Among his other notable 
poems are "Song of the Chattahoochee," "Corn," and "Sun- 
rise" composed when too feeble to hold a pen. 

There is a photograph of Lanier, with his autograph, 
on the south wall of Donovan Hall of the Johns Hopkins 
University on Monument Street. 

FRANCIS SCOTT KEY (1780-1843) was born in Fred- 
erick County. Among his writings is Hymn 443 in the 
Protestant Episcopal Hymnal. However, his chief fame 
rests on his authorship of the National Anthem — "The Star- 
Spangled Banner" — written at Fort McHenry, Sept. 12, 1814, 
during the attack on Baltimore of the British fleet. 

Key had gone aboard the British man-of-war to secure 
the exchange of a friend, and was forced to remain until the 
end of the battle, which resulted in the British being 
repulsed. It was while pacing the deck and anxiously 
awaiting the outcome that Key composed most of the words 
of his famous song. "The Star-Spangled Banner" was 
published Sept. 21, 1814, in the "Baltimore American and 
Daily Advertiser." 

JAMES RIDER RANDALL (1839-1908) was a native of 
Baltimore. After he finished college, he travelled exten- 
sively; then returned and accepted the Chair of English 
Literature in Poydras College, Point Coupee, La. 

On April 23, 1861, while at this college he wrote "Mary- 
land, My Maryland," after he had heard of the attack upon 
the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment in Baltimore on April 
19, 1861. 

SEVERN TEACKLE WALLIS (1816-1894). A lawyer 
and writer of broad and varied culture. He was associated 
with almost all institutions "whose aims were for higher 
intellectual culture," such as the Peabody Institute, Mary- 
land Institute, and University of Maryland. His address on 
historic occasions showed appropriateness "as well as 
felicity and mastery of language." His works cover a wide 
range. 

JOHN PENDLETON KENNEDY (1795-1870) was born 
in Baltimore. He was noted as a novelist and politician, as 
well as in the social, practical, literary, and educational 
world. He was one of the original board of trustees of the 
Peabody Institute, for the establishment of which he had 
been a prime mover. 

He was Secretary of the Navy in Fillmore's administra- 
tion from 1852-1853. He was a leading influence in 
despatching the Perry expedition to Japan in November, 
1852; the Lynch expedition into Africa; and Dr. Kane's 
exploration of the Arctic regions. 

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JOHN THOMAS SCHARF (1843-1898). A lawyer and 
journalist. He devoted his life to historical research. He 
lectured, wrote reviews, gave addresses and wrote several 
treatises showing the origin and development of his state. 
He was untiring in his research work and spared neither 
time nor money. Among his writings are: "Chronicles of 
Baltimore;" "History of Maryland from the Earliest Times 
to the Present," etc. 

MRS. MARY ELIZABETH WORMLEY LATIMER 
(1822-1904). She was a prolific writer on varied subjects; 
her account of the downfall of the French Empire in 1870 
shows great powers of description and dramatic ability. 

DANIEL COIT OILMAN (1831-1908). First president 
of Johns Hopkins University. First president of the Car- 
negie Institution at Washington. Editor-in-chief of the New 
International Encyclopedia. 

Among the many authors holding professorships at 
Johns Hopkins University may be mentioned JAMES W. 
BRIGHT, Donovan Professor of English; BASIL L. GIL- 
DERSLEEVE, Professor of Greek, and author of many 
Latin text-books; JACOB H. HOLLANDER, Professor of 
Political Economy, and author of "Guide to Baltimore," 
"Financial History of Baltimore," etc.; PAUL HAUPT, 
Professor of Semitic Languages and editor of the "Poly- 
chrome Bible;" MAURICE BLOOMFIELD, Professor of 
Sanskrit and Comparative Philology, author of "Sutra of 
Kancika," etc., and translator of "Arthave-Vedam ; " DR. 
WILLIAM OSLER, formerly Professor of the Medical De- 
partment and now at the University of Oxford. He is the 
author of many works. 

DR. WILLIAM HAND BROWNE (1828). Editor of 
"The Southern Magazine," and for a time connected with 
the management of Bledsoe's "Southern Review." Author 
of "Maryland, the History of a Palatinate," etc. 

MISS VIRGINIA WOODWARD CLOUD. Productive 
writer of ballads, poems, and stories. She is now living in 
Baltimore, engaged in journalism, in which she has 
achieved marked success. 

RUTH CRANSTON ("Anne Warwick," pseud.). 
Daughter of Bishop Cranston. She has won fame by a 
number of short stories appearing in Harper's Magazine. 
She is the author of "Compensation" and "The Unknown 
Woman." 

REV. OLIVER HUCKEL (1864). Pastor of the Associ- 
ate Congregational Church. Among his works are: "The 
Larger Life," "Melody of God's Love," "Parsifal," "Lohen- 
grin," "The Niebelungen Ring Series." 

FOLGER McKINSEY. The "Bentztown Bard" was 
born in Elkton, Md. He is noted for his contributions to 
the "Baltimore Sun." Among his best poetic creations are 
"Randall for the Hall of Fame," and "The Carpathia." 
Other notably attractive verses are those for children. 



Recognition is gladly made of the chief source of these notes— "The 
Representative Authors of Maryland," by Dr. Henry E. Shepherd. 

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LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE was born in Balti- 
more county. She is a teacher in the secondary schools of 
Baltimore, Md. She has great skill as a writer of sonnets 
and a strong and vigorous lyrical faculty, combined with 
grace and delicacy. She has received recognition abroad 
as well as at home not only for her poetry, but her prose 
work as well. 

MRS. HESTER DORSEY RICHARDSON. An au- 
thority on Maryland history. 

FRANCIS HOPKINSON SMITH (1838). Born in 
Baltimore, living in New York. He is an artist, engraver, 
lecturer, and author. He is best known through his short 
stories in darky dialect. Many of his water-colors may 
be seen in Walters' Art Gallery on Mt. Vernon Place. 
Among his best known stories are: "Fortunes of Oliver 
Horn"; "Colonel Carter of Cartersville"; "Kennedy Square" 
(supposed to be a picture of Baltimore life). 

FLORENCE TRAIL. Native of Frederick, Md. She 
has written four books, received most favorably at home 
and abroad; and has the rare distinction of having written 
the only history of Italian literature ever published in 
America. Her writings are: Journal in Foreign Lands, 
Studies in Criticism, Under the Second Renaissance, His- 
tory of Italian Literature. 

MRS. FRANCIS H. L. TURNBULL. Native of New 
York and a resident of Baltimore. One of the originators 
of the Woman's Literary Club of Baltimore. Founded the 
"Percy Turnbull Lectureship" at Johns Hopkins Univer- 
sity. She is an author of note. 

MRS. MAUD TARLETON WINCHESTER. A Balti- 
more woman who has just won distinction as a playwright. 
The play "Blindfolded" was given in 1912, in Boston, with 
marked success. 

WILLIAM HERVEY WOODS. An author of distinc- 
tion, whose study of Edgar Allan Poe was produced by The 
London Academy. 

MRS. JOHN C. WRENSHALL. Great organizer of 
clubs among which are: Maryland Folk Lore Society, Audu- 
bon Society, Quadriga Club, L'Alliance Francais, Edgar Poe 
Memorial Association In 1907. She is a member of the 
Royal Asiatic Society of London and contributes to its 
journal. 

RIDA JOHNSON YOUNG. Playwright. Author of 
"The Lottery Man" and "Seven Days." 



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THE PARKS. 

By Minnie E. Ashcom. 

DRUID HILL PARK was purchased by the City in Octo- 
ber, 1860. It comprises nearly 700 acres and is ranked 
with the most magnificent parks in the world. The 
grandeur of its scenery is a continual source of delight 
to those who are privileged to enjoy it. Druid Hill's most 
striking feature is its natural beauty, but we cannot fail 
to see that something has been done to assist nature. 
About a century ago the owner of this fine estate arranged 
the trees so as to give the most vivid and pleasing effects. 

The old Mansion House long ago ceased to be a resi- 
dence, and its wide, shady porches furnish a resting 
place for visitors. Back of it is a small collection of 
animals which are the delight of the children. We hope 
some day it will be worthy the name of "Zoo." Near by 
is the Maryland House, containing much that is curious 
and antique, having been brought from the Centennial 
Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876. 

A short walk past the Fish-Hatchery will bring us 
to the sea-lions' pond. And a little farther on we come 
to Tempest or Prospect Hill, froni which a splendid view 
of the busy Duck Mills of Woodberry may be had. If 
we are fortunate we may see a few- of the deer in the 
woody places, or, on some grassy slope meet the shep- 
herd and his flock of sheep. 

The park also has many facilities for sports — base- 
ball, football and lacrosse grounds, tennis courts, and 
croquet lawns. From early spring until late fall the Play- 
ground Association has a representative there to direct 
the little ones in their games. To those educated in the 
art of telling time by a sun dial the one near the Eutaw 
Place entrance is interesting. It tells the time of day in 
fourteen prominent cities of the world, covering both 
hemispheres and all latitudes. It was made by Mr. P. 
Hamilton, who presented it to the city. 

PATTERSON PARK, in the Eastern section, contains 
106 acres. It has a fine palm house and an observatory 
which affords a beautiful view of the harbor. It con- 
tains an old battery erected in 1814 for the defense of 
the city against British invasion. This park has excep- 
tionally well arranged athletic grounds and an excellent 
swimming pool under good management. Many large 
athletic meets are held here. 

CARROLL PARK is situated in the Southwestern part 
of Baltimore. The park proper comprises about 72 acres, 

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though this acreage has been more than doubled in the 
past few years by additional land which has not yet been 
developed. This property was at one time the home of 
Charles Carroll, barrister, and the mansion — originally 
Mount Clare House — built of imported brick in 1754 is now 
the home of the superintendent. 

The park is particularly well laid out and in season 
has a magnificent floral display. Much of it lies rather 
high and commands a beautiful view of the Patapsco. 
During the Civil War detachments of the Union Army were 
encamped here. 

Carroll Park has made provision for the recreation 
of the people by providing well-kept tennis courts and 
a ball field, where in season many games, which are 
largely attended, take place. There is also a well-equipped 
athletic field under the supervision of the Public Athletic 
League and a children's playground under the super- 
vision and management of the Playground Association. 

RIVERSIDE PARK, though it measures only 17 acres, 
is much appreciated in the crowded section of South 
Baltimore. It stands on the site of Fort Covington, an- 
other of the city's defenses from British invasion (1814). 
It is reported that these guns saved Fort McHenry from 
being attacked in the rear at night. It also is a play- 
ground center where many children enjoy the fresh air 
and shade. 

CLIFTON PARK was formerly the summer residence of 
Johns Hopkins, the founder of the university which bears 
his name. It contains 255 acres. It is said that the 
founder intended the university to be built there, but 
the trustees thought otherwise and sold the land to the 
city. The mansion is now used for offices. There are 
hothouses for the propagation of fiowers and plants used 
in many of the public squares. There are some rare and 
beautiful trees here which were planted by Johns Hop- 
kins — two Cedars of Lebanon, several magnificent mag- 
nolias and several firs. There is also a small grove of 
magnolia trees. Clifton Park also has well patronized 
athletic grounds. 

FEDERAL HILL PARK is situated on the South side 
of the harbor. It contains only a little over 8 acres. Its 
distinctive feature, a slope of 85 feet covered with green- 
sward, makes an attractive picture for those entering 
the harbor. From this plateau an excellent view of the 
river may be had. One can look directly down from here 
to Skinner's Drydock — closer observation of which would 
prove most interesting. 

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DRUID HILL PARK IN WINTER 



Photographs bv Mr. Jewell 



THE PLAYGROUND MOVEMENT IN 
BALTIMORE. 

By Emma R. Morgan. 

Old is the story of Ponce de Leon and his long search 
for the wonderful Fountain of Youth. With this tale and 
his belief that the precious waters were found in this, the 
then new world, America, you are all, no doubt, familiar. 

Wonderful things were done after this discovery, and 
the people were filled with a vigor of life, a spirit to do and 
dare; and many seemed to have quaffed deep of the rejuven- 
ating waters. Then, slowly at first, then more and more 
quickly, men forgot to drink of the waters until finally it 
was thought the Fountain was lost, and the people began to 
get old and tired and weak. 

Now there were some of the people that had not for- 
gotten about this remarkable Fountain, and they banded 
together to search for it. In their search, they found a 
marvellous thing — this far famed Fountain of Youth had 
its source in the heart of a little child, and had magic 
qualities. For whosoever approached a little child with 
love and patience, and interest in its sports and work, that 
person became young in heart, the cares and worries of the 
years fell from his shoulders, and he was invigorated and 
given fresh strength to meet his daily battle with life and 
its annoyances. 

This secret was whispered in the ears of Miss Eliza 
Ridgely, and the thought came to her that if the children 
could be gathered together in some spot set aside for them, 
this wonderful influence could be conserved and strength- 
ened, and so the first Playground for Children was started 
in Baltimore at the old building of the Eastern High School, 
Orleans and Aisquith Streets, in July, 1897. Through all the 
years from then to the present, the magic charm has held 
good, and more people became interested, and more places 
were set aside for the children, until the present year sees 
Baltimore the very proud possessor of thirty-one Play- 
grounds, nine of them in parks, five in institutions, and the 
others in school yards. Seven of these are for colored 
children. All are well equipped, some of them very finely, 
with apparatus dear to the child-heart and best suited to 
develop the powers conferred by the magic Fountain. In 
some places where it has been impracticable to place large 
apparatus. Play Leaders are sent to the children with balls, 
Indian clubs and quoits, and the children meet with the 
leaders on empty lots and street corners and play games 
and listen to stories. This is called the Guild of Play. 

The City has become interested in the movement to 
preserve its youth, grants a yearly appropriation to assist 
in supporting the work and, also, the services of two of its 
nurses who look after the health of the children, bind up 
any cuts or sprains, and instruct the children how to do the 
same. 

In the summer months, work and play alternate and the 
children become skilled with their fingers, making many 
pretty articles, such as baskets, collars, caps, baby dresses 
and doll clothes, kites, hammocks, and many other things, 
moving their small fingers very deftly and taking great 

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pride in the finistied objects. An Industrial Director visits 
the different playgrounds and supervises the work. Story 
tellers, too, visit many of the Playgrounds and delight the 
heart and mind of the child with their tales. Occasions 
and Fairs, held in all the Playgrounds once each year, 
attract the parents, who take delight in watching their 
children in folk dancing and games — both ring and athletic. 

Usually in May, a large May Festival of the combined 
Park Playgrounds is held in Druid Hill Park, where thou- 
sands of people come to see the Queen crowned and the 
beautiful folk dances in costume that follow. 

This season, four of the Park Playgrounds open the 
first of April, the other five on the first of May, while the 
School Playgrounds open the last of June, when school 
closes. 

This past winter a most successful evening recreation 
center was conducted for girls over fourteen and young 
women at the Eastern High School, the School Board grant- 
ing the use of the building for the purpose. 

Now I have told you something of our secret and how 
we are trying to conserve and develop this youth of the 
people. Perhaps you would like to know more about the 
work and if you will visit the Playground Offices, 408 Cathe- 
dral street. Miss O'Brien, the Secretary of the Children's 
Playground Association, or Miss Mary B. Steuart, its Super- 
visor of Playgrounds, or Miss Stockett, the Director of 
Games and Occasions, will gladly give you the information 
you desire. 

But, above all, you who are to visit our city, come to 
our Playgrounds, watch the children at their play, and 
join in the games if you will. When you feel the benefi- 
cent effects of our Fountain of Youth, see the bright eyes 
of the children, and hear their merry voices and happy 
laughter, you will realize that in our Baltimore Play- 
grounds the Blue Bird of Happiness nakes its home. 



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THE BOY SCOUTS. 

By H. Laurance Edoy. 
Scout Commissioner. 

The promotion of the Boy Scout movement has been 
recognized as a community asset. It is the community's 
opportunity to reach the boy for good citizenship. The 
organization of the Local Council and the progress of its 
activities, as related to scouting, is evidence to the boy, 
who knows the scout program, that the community is inter- 
ested in him; not only interested in his education (by 
compelling him to attend the public school in order that he 
may be properly trained for his citizenship duties later on), 
but interested in his play also, when that play wholesomely 
and happily contributes, as it does in the scout program, 
to his physical, mental and moral development. 

The Local Council through scouting makes an asset of 
the boy; it makes him co-operative with the community's 
interest; it places a value on the minority years of his 
citizenship life; it gives him something to do. It teaches 
him to do things for himself; it makes him self-reliant, 
courageous, and manly; and the community's interest in 
the healthful, normal, moral development of the boy as 
such holds out to him its laurel wreath of approval. 

Statistics give convincing evidence that the minority 
years of a boy's life are the most impressionable years in 
his citizenship training, and that boys are in greater danger 
of being lost from good citizenship in their minority years 
than in the years after they have attained their majority. 
Scouting begins with a boy when he is twelve years old, 
in the school period of his life — thus it is possible for the 
Local Council to ascertain the number of boys in the com- 
munity who are eligible to become scouts, and who would 
be benefited by the scouting program. 

The motto of the Boy Scouts, is BE PREPARED, and 
means that the scout is always in a state of readiness in 
mind and body to do his duty. 

Before he becomes a scout a boy must promise: 

On my honor I will do my best: 

1. To do my duty to God and my country, and to obey 
the scout law; 

2. To help other people at all times; 

3. To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, 
and morally straight. 

When taking this oath the scout will stand, holding up 
his right hand, palm to the front, thumb resting on the 
nail of the little finger and the other three fingers upright 
and together. 

This is the scout sign. The three fingers held up 
remind him of his three promises in the scout oath. 

The scout salute is given by raising to the forehead 
the three fingers thus held up. 

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PICTURESQUE BITS OF BALTIMORE AND 

VICINITY. 

By Fraxcis P. Wightman. 

To the student of the beautiful in nature, to the artist 
who cares for themes out of the commonplace, to the idle 
dreamer who loves to haunt romantic places, Baltimore 
offers a rich field of research. 

GWYNNS FALLS PARK is one of the pleasantest spots 
to which the tired citizen may hie after a warm day in 
town. Here on one of the shady seats he may rest himself 
to the music of running water. The stream, which mean- 
ders through this valley, although somewhat broader than 
Tennyson's Brook, is every bit as interesting. Splashing 
and sprawling over the rocks, or eddying into pools where 
the small boy may catch miniature fish or tadpoles, it is 
always an object of beauty. The woods on either slope 
abound in the early spring with blossoms: dogwood, anem- 
one, violet, blood root, etc., and in the autumn the trees 
in their splendid regalia flood the landscape with color. 
The hilltops rolling away in the distance present a variation 
of skyline which is most pleasing. In short, the observer 
finds himself in quite a romantic spot which it seems hardly 
possible to discover so close to the confines of a metropolis. 
This extent of natural beauty was so much admired that 
the City bought it and intends to keep it in its original 
beauty. 

Gwynns Falls Park is not alone in its claims to atten- 
tion, for practically every suburb of Baltimore offers induce- 
ments to the lover of the picturesque. MOUNT WASH- 
INGTON and vicinity show fine rolling country with small 
streams. At CARNEY, one of the highest points, are to be 
found long sweeps of rolling country interspersed with 
attractive little dells on the cross-roads East and West. 

Of quite another character is the beauty of ORANGE 
GROVE, in its wild charm. The miniature cascade which 
disports itself so playfully, falls into a limpid pool which 
one could well imagine had felt the touch of Dryads' lips. 

Leaving the rural beauties of the suburbs, one finds 
much of interest within the City limits and around the 
harbor. OLD TOWN and JONES' FALLS abound in pictur- 
esque architectural motives. The views from Charles street 
looking East between Lexington street and Franklin street 
are excellent. 

The HARBOR proper, from Light street wharf to the 
LAZARETTO LIGHT, is particularly fine viewed from 
either side. The perspective of some of the docks along 
Pratt street, the huddles of sailing vessels at the oyster 
wharves, the busy tugs, and the big freight steamers are all 
very delightful. The South side of the harbor below Federal 
Hill is lined with quaint wharves and shipyards. Fine 
views of the North side of the harbor and of Canton Hollow 
with its anchored fleet of merchantmen, may be seen from 
the opposite shore. 

Around SPRING GARDENS and on the Southern side 
of LOCUST POINT are many sketchy bits, old hulks, land- 
ings, anchorages, and sailing craft, which will appeal to 
those who prefer this sort of subject. 

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ELLICOTT CITY, the early home of Edwin Aboey, of- 
fers to the artist, quaint and romantic bits of architecture 
and suggestions for landscape composition, which are re- 
plete with beauty and charm. ANGELO COTTAGE, tradi- 
tion has it, was built in colonial days by an Italian artist, 
who found the surrounding country so alluring that he 
never returned to his native land, but was well content to 
remain in his quaint castle, built in the style of the forti- 
fications of the feudal lords. The remains of the building 
are in a semi-ruined condition, and from a towering emi- 
nence, present a picture of indescribable pathos. 

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THE EYE SENTIENT. 




T EVEN or at noon-tide— 
in the rush 

Of morning labor hastening 
to its toil 

Through narrow courts and 
mews, fog-dimmed, a-hush. 

Or down broad streets sun-spangled as with foil, 

It ever searches, searches early, late. 

To grasp the beauty set so thick around — 

Would clasp, enfold and revel in it, found, 

And stay therewith a longing naught can sate. 

In smoke-belched cloud it marks a noble swell. 

On rain-wet pave a subtle, pearly glint. 

Sees in the gutters' tide a volute whirl. 

Or mounts to where webbed wires seem to hint 

Of patterns interwoven. Naught can cloy 

That eye 'fore which stands Nature's art revealed — 

It surfeits in the beauty thus unsealed. 

Yet in its surfeit longs for further joy. 

— James Parton Haney. 




IN LITTLE PLEASANT STREET. NEAR CHARLES STREET 




^ISITORS TO THE CONVENTION OF THE 
1 EASTERN ART AND MANUAL TRAINING 

TEACHERS ASSOCIATION cannot afford to miss 

the regular 

SIGHT SEEING AUTOMOBILE TRIPS 

at half fare. The trip is planned to show the visitor 
the most interesting and beautiful spots in Baltimore, 
including the remarkable natural Druid Hill Park. 
The large and comfortable auto coaches will start 
from the Belvedere at hours to suit the convenience 
of visitors, beginning at 8 A. M. each day and making 
hourly trips or as often as parties are ready to go. 
For detailed information or folders apply to the 
Chairman of the Committee of Points of Interest, 
Belvedere Hotel. Tickets will be sold by the con- 
ductors or at the Committee Headquarters. 




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